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Rossi rules out Laguna victory PAGE 16 AFP PHOTO

A picture shows this year’s biggest release of water from the sluice for flood prevention at the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province, on July 20, after relentless torrential rains hit Yangtze River areas.

11 missing in China landslide as flood woes persist Agence France-Presse

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BEIJING - Eleven people were missing after a landslide Tuesday in southwestern China, where flooding caused by relentless torrential rains has triggered a series of deadly disasters, state media said.

The landslide swept into a village in Mianning county in Sichuan province early Tuesday, the Xinhua news agency reported, quoting provincial emergency response officials. Rescuers were searching through the debris, it

said.

Floods and landslides have killed hundreds of people over the past few weeks across a wide arc of the country, mostly in the south.

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Thailand lifts emergency rule in three provinces Agence France-Presse

BANGKOK - Thailand said Tuesday that it was lifting a state of emergency in three northern provinces but not in Bangkok, two months after the end of antigovernment protests in the capital that turned deadly.

The emergency law, which bans public gatherings of more than five people and gives security forces the right to detain suspects for 30 days without charge,

will remain in place in 16 other provinces. Earlier this month Thailand extended the emergency powers across about one quarter of the country by three months, prompting concern among rights groups and key allies including the United States. The cabinet decided Tuesday to revoke the state of emergency in Lampang, Roi Et and Sakon Nakhon provinces.

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AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong

Flowers are laid outside the burnt-down Central World shopping mall building Thursday, May 27, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand said Tuesday that it was lifting a state of emergency in three northern provinces but not in Bangkok, two months after the end of anti-government protests in the capital that turned deadly.

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Bali News Tracking the allegation of corruption

Bali Police deploy eight investigators Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Allegation on corruption case in the land acquisition for international hospital (RSI) in Kediri, Tabanan, is now being investigated by Criminal Detective Unit (Reskrim) of Bali Police. Even, the investigation team had been deployed in order to track the actual flow of the funds. This matter was conveyed

by Spokesperson of Bali Police, Gde Sugianyar, last Monday (Jul 19).

A number of investigators were instructed by Director of Criminal Detective of Bali Police, Andi Taqdir Rahmantiro.

Andi Taqdir entrusted the tasks to eight investigators listed in his warrant dated July 15, 2010. “The investigators can be sent down at any time,” said Gde Sugianyar.

Furthermore, he said the investigation team should initiate their task last Monday. Since hundreds of volunteers of SukajaI Gusti Ngurah Anom (Sukarno) came to the Bali Police to provide moral support to the investigators in conducting comprehensive investigation, so the investigation team delayed their task to Tabanan.

Accompanied by Unit Chief IV of Corruption Crime, Director of Criminal Detective, Komang Suwirya, Gde Sugianyar mentioned that his party was remaining to gather the facts and evidence because the investigation was started from the information in the media that there were allegation of mark up in relation to the land acquisition for international hospital located in Kediri, Tabanan. “There were no reports from any individual persons. We investigated the case based on information from newspapers. The handling of this corruption case allegation, of course, requires a long time. Additionally, we have to be working professionally, with the absence of intimidation from other parties,” affirmed the former Chief of Balikpapan Police.

Thus, his party expected the help would come from all parties. In other words, if they had valid data regarding to the corruption allegation case in the RSI’s land acquisition were expected to be notified to the investigators. By doing so, the investigation process would take place more quickly and certainly the examination would last faster, too.

“If there is a strong indication, of course we will promptly inform the State Audit Agency (BPK) and the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). Later on, it would be followed up by conducting an investigation,” added Suwirya telling reporters in the room of Gde Sugianyar last Monday.

Meanwhile, hundreds of volunteers of Sukarno came to Bali Police, last Monday (Jul 19). Their arrival was merely intended to give moral support to thoroughly investigate the cases on alleged corruption in the land acquisition of RSI Kediri, Tabanan. They did not reject if there was suspicion of corruption carried by the media lately.

“As a volunteer of Sukarno, I invoke the Bali Police to follow up the case of such alleged corruption. Likewise, I ask the investigating authorities to be transparent in handling of the case. We want the government of Tabanan will be free from any corruption,” said Made Muskadana as Field Coordinator of Sukarno’s volunteers accompanied by six representatives received by Director of Unit Chief IV of Criminal Detective of Bali Police. (kmb21)

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A boy is buying a kite. During the strong wind, kite become popular and played everywhere throughout Bali.

Challenges of regency to realize public welfare The main challenges experienced by Buleleng Regency in realizing public welfare is the complex life problems faced by the community, especially people domiciling in remote villages that some of them are still in the very apprehensive economic condition.

On that account, many government programs are not effective because a single program can not automatically raise the welfare of one family. In other words, one program can only resolve one problem in people’s life, but another issue will continue to torture them so they are still powerless to build their self-welfare and family welfare.

At Tunjung Village, Kubutambahan subdistrict, a number of parents do not send their children to elementary or secondary school. They really know that the government had a free school program plus school operational support (BOS) and another program making the family unnecessary to spend any single penny for school fees of children. However, they still do not send their children because in their mind children are better to work so that their family can live. In this regard, educational programs to improve the welfare of the community can be said to have failed. A family without education will be difficult to compete against others in creating prosperity.

Meanwhile, at Bukti Village, still in the area of Kubutambahan, many

sharecroppers build houses on land owned by others. As the land owners may take their land anytime, then the residents do not want to build permanent homes and are willing to sleep on the dirt floor while their health continues to be disturbed. When house refurbishment is intensively conducted by government agencies no single resident is worthy to get it.

One of the requirements for a resident to get the home refurbishment assistance is that the house is indeed built on one’s own land. In this case, these residents will not be entitled to get the help of healthy home forever.

The poor will remain to live in unhealthy homes. As consequence, unhealthy residents can not work well for improving their welfare. Being not prosperous, then they will continue to be residents of hereditary sharecropper.

There are many more series of other examples that can serve as proof that a program may not be effective if other issues in the community are not addressed with other programs all at once.

For instance, Public Health Services has a program to improve nutrition.

But, if only the health of infants is improved, while the baby’s parents do not have anything to continue their children’s life after growing up, so the healthy children during their babyhood may become unhappy children in their adult.

Head of Buleleng Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda), Gde Darmaja, acknowledged that the greatest challenge faced by local government in improving the Buleleng people’s welfare was the difficulty to break the chains of poverty caused by a complexity of life problems faced in a family. To overcome those challenges, his party had made breakthrough programs every year to permanently resolve the poverty while improving the welfare of the people continually. He acknowledged that many programs did not directly create a welfare improvement. For example, direct cash assistance (BLT) program, food aid, assistance to orphanages, nursing homes and the like were performed by Social Services only to reduce the burden of community’s life temporarily. (ole)

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Tracking, A Tourist Fell Down the Cliff Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Anne Mieke Cameila (56), a Dutch tourist, had an accident while doing a tour walk (tracking) around Banjar Cagan, Pejeng Kangin Village, Tampaksiring Sub district, Gianyar last Monday (19/7). The tourist slipped and fell down the 20 meters deep cliff. She died due to serious injuries of fractured hands, left foot and right side of skull holed 6 cm deep also blisters at some places.

AFP PHOTO / Sonny TUMBELAKA

Balinese women carry offerings during a procession for a cremation ceremony locally called a “ngaben” in Kutuh village in south Kuta on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 14, 2010.

The ritual cremated 152 bodies as part of a Balinese traditional religious ceremony for the dead.

Balinese Hindus believe cremation is intended to return the bodies to the fundamental elements of fire, air, water, earth and void.

Calonarang: The King, the Witch and the Priest AT the beginning of 7th century, a Balinese prince becomes the king of Java, the great Erlangga. His mother, Mahendradatta, was a Javanese princess who ruled Bali with her Balinese husband, Dharmodayana, until the husband, suspecting her of practising evil magic, exiled her to the forest.

When Erlangga’s father died, leaving Mahendradatta as a rangda or a widow, she conspired to use her band of pupils trained in the black arts to destroy Erlangga’s kingdom.

Her chief grudge against Erlangga because of fancied insults to her beautiful daughter, Ratna Menggali – the noblemen of Daha had refused her in marriage for fear of her mother’s evil reputation.

Calonarang (Erlangga’s mother who practising evil magic) went with her pupils to the cemetery and they prayed and danced in honour of Begawati, the deity of black magic, to help them destroy Daha.

The goddes appeared and danced with them, granting her permission, warning the witch, however, to preserve the center of the kingdom untouched. The witches

danced at the crossroads and soon people fell in great numbers.

Discovering the cause of the epidemic, Erlangga ordered his soldiers to go and kill the witch. They stole into her house while she slept and stabbed her in the heart , but Calonarang awoke unhurt and consumed the daring soldiers with her own fire. The witch went once more into the cemetery and danced with her pupils, dug out corpses, cutting them into pieces, eating the members, drinking the blood, and wearing the entrails as necklaces.

Begawati appeared again and joined in the bloody banquet, but warned Calonarang to be careful. The witches danced once more at the crossroads and the dreadful epidemic ravaged the land, the vassals of Erlangga died before they could even bury the corpses they bore to the cemeteries.

The desperate king sent for Mpu Bharada, the holy man from Lemah Tulis, the only living being who could vanquish the witch. Mpu Bharada planned his campaign carefully. He sent Bahula, his young assistant, to ask for the witch

daughter’s in marriage. Highly flattered, the mother gave her consent and after a happy and passionate honeymoon, Bahula learned from his wife the secret of Calonarang’s power. The possession of a little magic book which he stole and turned over to his master.

The holy man copied it and had it returned before the disappearance could be noticed. The book was a manual of righteousness and had to be read backwards. The holy man was then able to restore life to those victims whose bodies had not yet decayed. Armed with the new knowledge, he accused the witch of her crimes, but she challenged him by setting an enormous Banyan tree on fire by a single look of her fiery eyes.

Bharada foiled the enraged witch by restoring the tree, and she turned her fire against the holy man. Unmoved, he killed her with one of her own mantras, but she died in her monstrous form and Bharada, to absolve her of her crimes and enable her to atone for them, revived her, gave her human appearance, and then killed her again. (BTN/Doc)

The information received mentioned victim was quite hard to be evacuated due to the location. Besides the deepness, the river flow under it is quite steep. Now the body of the victim is placed at Sanjiwani Hospital and planned to be sent to her country. During in Bali the victim stayed at Banu Swari, Tengkulak, Sukawati with husband Wouter Varst (57). In their visit they followed several families and other groups too. At first, the tracking was that’s done by a tourist guide from Kintamani, Bangli Region, was using a bicycle which then followed walking through

footpaths. Turns out the footpath was located near a cliff which then victim lost balance, slipped then fell down the cliff.

The accident was then reported to the Police. Gianyar Police Resort identification team did investigate the crime scene and identified the victim. The evacuation was quite difficult due to the location. Succeeding it, the body was then brought to Sanjiwani General Hospital Gianyar to have vise and seems her family was sadden by this.

Wouter Varst and the family had tears in their eyes after seeing his wife has no longer lived. (kmb16)

Methamphetamine Packages “Thrown in” to Kerobokan Prison Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Efforts in getting in illegal items happen again in Kerobokan prison on Sunday night. The suspected methamphetamine package was caught on a securing trellis of the biggest prison in Bali.

The package has the best quality of the illegal drug and it was thrown from Mertanadi Street (west of the prison) which was tied with a stone hoped to be landing on target but got into between block D (special for narcotic involved prisoners) and Policlinic.

The package was first found by an official who was going to the observing tower when it was seen a package dangling on the trellis.

The package was then taken to KPLP Maliki but it’s a shame Po-

lice did not catch who did it.

Maliki explained, the founded illegal item has been reported to the Bali Police Department and soon there should be steps to be taken, “We handover it to those who take care of it.”

Maliki also stated, this method did not happen for the first time.

Once it happened using a tennis ball, then wrapped in newspaper, and more. Also there was ganja package fell on the border alleyway once.

Every illegal item found then given to the main Police Department.

So does this mean the security hasn’t been maximized? Maliki certainly said no with the reason every bit of Kerobokan Prison has had a very tight supervising although the numbers of officials working is not as much as those jailed. (015)

River Tukadaya Safety Dam Destroyed Negara, DenPost

The safety dam of Tukadaya River, Batuagung, Jembrana, was broken down as it was hit by a flash flood lately. As a result the safety dam was seriously damaged.

From an observation last Monday (19/7), the damage was at the bridge’s wing that connects Dusun Banhar Anyar and the Keladian Dauhwaru Area. It also threatens to collapse the 25 meters of the safety dam as it has caused the river sup-

port walls steepen down. Other damages happened at the south of Jero Pengentuh Dam which is the source of Subak Tamblang irrigation.

Around 40 meters of netted stones and concrete support were damaged by the flood as well.

According to one of the Batuagung residents, IB Arnawa, it’s often Tukadaya River experienced floods.

Because of the flood the safety support of the river built by the Bali Government at year 2006 were broken down and at least there are five loca-

tion points damaged this year.

He hopes that this will be taken care of as it is threatening houses, roads and bridges near by. Also if it’s left happening and not taken care, it can damage even more. (120)

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Suicide attacks kill at least 48 in Iraq Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber ripped through a line of anti-alQaida Sunni fighters waiting to collect their paychecks near an Iraqi military base as nearly 50 people were killed in violence west of Baghdad.

AFP PHOTO / TAMAN NEWS

Picture taken on July 9, 2010 shows a donkey attached to a parachute flying over a beach in Golubitskaya.

Parachuting donkey shocks Russian beachgoers Agence France-Presse

MOSCOW Russian beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday.

Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over heads of holidaymakers sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region last week.

A regional police spokeswoman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to attract beachgoers to their private beach.

Instead, they attracted the attention of regional police who

learned of the flying donkey earlier this week and launched a probe.

“The donkey screamed and children cried,” regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova told AFP. “No-one had the brains to call police.”

Instead, she said, people reached for their cameras and bombarded a local newspaper with phone calls.

“It was put up so high into the sky that the children on the beach cried and asked their parents: “Why did they tie a doggy to a parachute?” the newspaper, Taman, said this week.

“The donkey landed in an atrocious manner: it was dragged several metres along the water, after which the animal was pulled out half-alive onto the shore.”

Iran hangs four drug traffickers: report Agence France-Presse

TEHRAN - Iran has hanged three men in a prison in Kerman in the south and one in public in the western city of Ahvaz after they were convicted of drug trafficking, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

Shargh newspaper identified three men executed in Kerman city on Monday as Abbas Y., Ruhollah B., and Mohammad Naim Sh. A fourth man identified only as A. Sh. was executed in public in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on Monday for possessing and selling half a kilo of heroin (about a pound),

hardline newspaper Kayhan said.

It added that public executions in Khuzestan “have had a major effect on lowering crime rates.”

The latest hangings bring the total number of executions in Iran to 92 so far this year, according to an AFP count based on media reports. Last year, at least 270 people were hanged.

Iran says the death penalty is essential to maintain public security and is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.

Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are all punishable by death in Iran.

The attack is the deadliest this year against the groups that turned against the terror network amid an apparent campaign by insurgents to undermine confidence in the government security forces and their allies.

The attacks on the Awakening Council members highlighted the daunting security challenges the country faces as the U.S. works to withdraw all combat troops in Iraq.

The first attack Sunday morning by a single bomber with an explosive vest killed at least 45 people and wounded more than 40 at a checkpoint near a military base in the mostly Sunni district of Radwaniya southwest of Baghdad.

Some 150 Sunni fighters had lined up to collect their paychecks when the bomber struck, according to witnesses.

“I ran, thinking that I was a dead man,” said Uday Khamis, 24, speaking outside the Mahmoudiyah hospital where many of the wounded were taken. His left hand was bandaged and his clothes were stained with blood.

At least a dozen men, dressed in military-style uniforms were seen laying in pools of blood in front of a blast wall in footage obtained by the Associated Press Television shortly after the blast.

There were conflicting reports as to how many of the dead were Iraqi soldiers and whether accountants who were killed as they were handing out money were civilian or military.

In the second attack, a suspected militant stormed into a local Awak-

ening Council headquarters in the far western town of Qaim near the Syrian border and opened fire on those inside.

The town and the vast desert province of Anbar, were for years the epicenter of the Sunni Arab insurgency and a sanctuary for alQaida.

The fighters returned fire, wounding the attacker, who then blew himself up as they gathered around him, killing three and wounding six others, police officials said on condition of anonymity.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Two other members of the Sunni militia were also wounded in other minor attacks south of Baghdad.

While violence has dropped dramatically over the past two years in the country, Iraqi security forces remain a favorite target for insurgents bent on destabilizing the country and its Shiite-led government.

The attack also raised to the surface the festering resentment on the part of some Awakening Council members toward a government they said has largely marginalized them, even though their decision to fight alongside the Americans has made them targets for Sunni extremists.

The complaints take on greater urgency given Iraq’s current political stalemate and the scheduled withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces by the end of August.

More than four months after March’s inconclusive parliamentary

election, Iraq has yet to form a new government as politicians bicker over who will lead the country. The impasse has raised fears that militants will try to exploit the political vacuum to re-ignite sectarian tensions that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.

While the Awakening Councils played a key role in reducing the overall level of violence in Iraq, their future role in the Shiite-dominated government is uncertain.

The U.S. used to pay the monthly salaries of about $300 to the nearly 100,000-strong militias. Last year, the Iraqi government took over paying their salaries and, after heavy pressure from the Americans, agreed to absorb up to 20 percent of the fighters into its security forces, while giving the others government jobs.

“The government has not provided job opportunities to the heroes who fought al-Qaida,” Sheik Efan Saadoun, a member of the provincial council in Anbar said. “Therefore, these heroes are not willing to fight al-Qaida because they have not received what they deserved.”

Others appeared to imply that the government was at least complicit in the attacks Sunday.

Khamis, the bombing victim, said while men are usually searched at the checkpoint where the bomber struck, on Sunday they were allowed to line up without any checks.

Hassan Ali, who was waiting at the hospital with his wounded nephew, said also this was the fifth day they had gone to the base to try and collect their paychecks.

“Every time they went to receive their salary, they told them to come the next day and they did that for four days and now in the fifth day this explosion took place,” he said.

Driver error may have caused Indian train crash Associated Press Writer

CALCUTTA, India – A train that slammed into another in an eastern Indian station was traveling three times faster than it should have been and ignored signals to stop, railway officials said Tuesday, suggesting that driver error was behind the crash that killed 63 people.

In the early hours of Monday, the Uttarbanga Express hit a passenger train that was about to pull out of Sainthia station, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Calcutta.

The force of the crash was so intense that the roof of one car was thrust onto an overpass above the tracks.

Officials launched an investigation Tuesday into the crash, that also injured scores of travelers. Initial findings have already shown that the

Uttarbanga was traveling at 55 miles per hour (90 kilometers per hour) — three times the speed it should have been — even though it was expected to stop at Sainthia station, according to Vivek Sahai, a senior railway official.

The signal operator at the Sainthia station told reporters that the Uttarbanga sped toward the station despite a red signal, indicating that it should slow down and stop.

At the time, the Vananchal Express was just beginning to leave the station.

Mator Let, the signal operator, said that he tried to communicate with the driver, but the train did not stop. The driver was among those killed in the crash.

Accidents are relatively common on India’s sprawling rail network, which is one of the world’s largest

but lacks modern signaling and communication systems. Most crashes are blamed on poor maintenance and human error.

It was the second major train crash in West Bengal state in two months. On May 28, a passenger train derailed and was hit by a cargo train, killing 145 people. Authorities blamed sabotage by Maoist rebels for that crash.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee initially raised the possibility that Monday’s crash was another case of sabotage, but there was no immediate indication that rebels were to blame. A handful of accidents in north India in January killed at least a dozen people and were blamed on heavy winter fog that impaired visibility. Other fatal crashes happened when rickety rail bridges give way.

International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate General Jalan Tantular 32 Renon Denpasar Phone: +62 361 241118 Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

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Blame-game over deadly India train crash KOLKATA - A probe into a rail crash in eastern India that claimed more than 60 lives focused Tuesday on why a packed express train hurtled at high speed into a station where it was scheduled to halt.

The express roared into Sainthia station in West Bengal state at 90 kilometers an hour (60 miles an hour) early Monday and slammed with enormous force into the rear of a stationary train waiting to leave the platform.

More than 160 people were injured and two of them died overnight, raising the overall death toll to 63. Speculation and looming state elections in West Bengal produced a host of theories in the immediate wake of the crash, as the potential for blame was shifted between politicians and railway officials.

Indian Railway Board Chairman Vivek Sahay suggested that human error was the most likely cause, saying the express driver had ignored a stop signal and then failed to reduce speed as he approached the station.

“Why was the train travelling so fast? The driver didn’t even touch the brakes or the emergency brakes,” Sahay told reporters.

With the express hurtling towards them, officials at Sainthia station issued frantic warnings over the public address system, telling those on the platform to run for safety.

Retired train drivers inter-

Thailand From page 1 In addition to five areas where the decree was recently lifted, said deputy government spokesman Supachai Jaismut.

“There are no political movements in those three provinces and local officials are confident that they can handle the situation,” he said.

In the 16 other provinces, security officials report continued political activities such as using community radio to incite unrest, as well as fears of sabotage and assassination attempts on important people, he added.

Two months of mass rallies by the Red Shirts, who were seeking immediate elections, sparked outbreaks of violence that left 90 people dead, mostly civilians, and nearly 1,900 injured, ending in a bloody army crackdown in May. Critics say the government may be fanning the crisis as it clamps down and censors the protest movement — which broadly supports fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra — rather than addressing its grievances.

A visiting senior US envoy last week called for the state of emergency to be lifted “as soon as possible”.

William Burns, the State Department’s number three, said that to retain these powers indefinitely was “not healthy for a democratic system”.

viewed by several Indian newspapers questioned Sahay’s version of events, saying the fact that neither the driver nor his assistant attempted to apply the brakes suggested a signal failure or other technical malfunction.

Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee had initially raised the possibility of sabotage, a move her opponents said was aimed at deflecting criticism for a recent spate of train accidents on her watch.

Banerjee has come under pressure for neglecting her ministerial duties in order to concentrate on the May 2011 polls in her home state of West Bengal where she is aiming to end more than three decades of Marxist rule. “Shunt Her Out” was the front page verdict of the Mail Today newspaper, while an editorial in The Hindu said Banerjee was “clearly not up to the job of ensuring safety on the tracks”.

West Bengal Civil Defence Minister Srikumar Mukherjee, an arch rival of Banerjee’s, ridiculed her hints at possible sabotage.

“The tragic accident took place because of negligence on the part of the railway administration,” Mukherjee said.

The authorities have used the powers to arrest hundreds of suspects — including most of the top leaders of the “Red Shirt” protest movement — and shut down anti-government TV channels, radio stations and websites.

New York-based group Human Rights Watch said earlier this month the government was “systematically using” the emergency decree to hold suspects without charge for up to 30 days in unofficial places of detention.

Many detainees have been held at military camps but their exact numbers and whereabouts are unknown to their families, it said.

According to Human Rights Watch, putting detainees in the hands of security personnel who often lack training and experience in civilian law enforcement increases the risk of serious abuses.

The government has rejected calls from the opposition for the decree to be lifted in Bangkok for a parliamentary byelection in the capital on July 25 in which a Red Shirt leader detained on terrorism charges is running.

A separate state of emergency has been in place since 2005 in three Muslim-majority southern provinces where a separatist insurgency has left more than 4,100 people dead in six years, with no end in sight to the violence.

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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) meets with ASEAN Foreign Ministers prior to the opening of the 43rd annual Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign minister’s meeting in Hanoi on July 20, 2010.

ASEAN meets in shadow of Korea tensions Agence France-Presse

HANOI - Southeast Asian foreign ministers met in Vietnam on Tuesday for discussions dominated by concerns over the sinking of a South Korean warship and elections in militaryruled Myanmar.

Ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are meeting in Hanoi ahead of the region’s main security forum Friday, which also gathers major powers including China, the United States and the European Union.

A draft statement prepared ahead of Tuesday’s talks said the 10 ASEAN member states supported a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and urged a resumption of six-party disarmament talks “as soon as possible”.

“We deplored the incident of the Cheonan ship sinking and the rising tension on the Korean peninsula,” the draft statement said, referring to an explosion that ripped apart a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors.

“We urge all parties con-

11 missing From page 1 Scores have reportedly died in just the past several days, with Sichuan and the neighbouring province of Shaanxi particularly hardhit.

Rain-triggered landslides that struck in or near the Shaanxi cities

cerned to exercise the utmost restraint, enhance confidence and trust, settle disputes by peaceful means through dialogue, and promote long-lasting peace and security in the region.”

It said the six-party talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia were still the “main platform to achieve longlasting peace and stability”.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun will attend the 27-member ARF meeting alongside their counterparts from the six-party process.

It will be the first time the top diplomats from the disarmament dialogue will be in the same room since the Cheonan incident dramatically raised tensions on the Korean peninsula.

ASEAN chief Surin Pitsuwan said it was an opportunity to “engage in a discussion to see if the six-party talks can be given a new life”.

Clinton will arrive in Vietnam after visits this week to Pakistan and South Korea, where she is due to attend a memorial for the dead sailors.

South Korea, the United States and other nations, citing the findings

of a multinational investigation, accuse the North of firing a torpedo that sank the warship.

The North vehemently denies the allegations and has threatened a military response to any attempts to punish it.

But it has also said it is willing to return to the multilateral disarmament talks, which it abandoned last year, after the United Nations Security Council condemned the sinking but did not assign blame.

The US and South Korea have expressed skepticism about the North’s sincerity and responded by announcing plans to hold war games this month, details of which will be announced Wednesday when Clinton visits Seoul alongside US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

A US aircraft carrier, the 97,000-tonne USS George Washington, and three destroyers will visit South Korea this week ahead of the naval exercise.

A draft ARF chairman’s statement suggests the ARF is

of Ankang, Hanzhong and Shangluo since last week have killed 37 people and left 97 others missing, Xinhua said, quoting provincial authorities.

Flooding and other disasters also have destroyed at least 8,700 homes in the province and forced the evacuation of 170,000 people, it said.

The government said Monday that water levels in the Han river in Ankang had reached 50-year highs af-

ter heavy rains that began late last week.

Rivers throughout rain-hit regions have risen to or beyond their warning levels, flooding numerous towns and cities.

State television footage Tuesday showed rescuers ferrying flood victims out of inundated towns along the Han river and in other locations.

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Malaysian sentenced to death over Indonesian maid murder Agence France-Presse

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An activist walks past a banner (L) encouraging injection drug users (IDU’s) to avoid exhanging needles, at a sexually transmitted diseases clinic in Jakarta on July 20, 2010. Around 270,000 Indonesians are estimated to be infected with HIV, and AIDS has claimed about 8,700 lives in the Muslim-majority nation of 228 million people, according to the UNAIDS agency. At least 25 million people have died of AIDS since the disease first came to light in 1981.

AGO grills Yusril again Antara

JAKARTA - Former law and human rights minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra was again questioned by the Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday over an alleged corruption case in his ministry several years ago.

Yusril, who is a suspect in the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s online Siminbakum Service’s alleged corruption case, arrived at the AGO at 10 am on Tuesday.

He said that he came to the AGO to follow the suggestions of many parties and had to respect the legal institution. “The AGO building is a symbol of the prosecutor’s institution,” he said.

Previously, the AGO named Yusril and Hartono Tanoesudibyo, former chief commissioner of PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamia (SRD), suspects in the law and human rights

ministry’s Siminbakum alleged corruption case.

Yusril said before attending the questioning that he would respond to the questions of investigator with standard answers.

“I’ll respond to it with standard answers I won’t give them substance answers because the validity of the attorney general’s status is till being under the process at the Constitutional Court (MA),” he said.

The former minister/state secretary has filed a judicial review on the attorney general low on the position of Attorney General Hendarman

Supandji.

He said that he would give substance answers in the court later on.

“It can just stay refuse to answer all questions, and I will explain in the court and let the judges asked me directly in court sessions,” he added.

Supandji said earlier that Yusril Ihza Mahendra and Hartono Tanoesudibyo can be detained. But he left it to investigators to decide for fear of being misunderstood at being emotional.

“I fully leave the case to investigators (to detain or no to detain them),” the attorney general said on Monday.

The attorney general said that if he directly ordered the detention he could be misunderstood for being emotional.

Minister supports plan to censor ‘’infotainment” programs Antara

BANDUNG - Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring has expressed support for the National Broadcasting Commission’s (KPI) plan to censor so-called “infotainment” television programs in Indonesia.

The plan aimed to prevent violations of ethical, religious, moral, social and cultural values in Indonesia.

“I personally support the KPI’s plan. We must understand that the authority to control the content of broadcasting programs in Indonesia is in the hands of KPI,” he said on Tuesday after attending an Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Forum on Strengthening Cooperation in ICT Research & Development at the Golden Flower Hotel here.

He said infotainment programs in Indonesia tended to dig up mat-

ters related to people’s private lives.

“Unfortunately many people love the programs,” he added.

Earlier, the KPI had announced it was planning to subject the contents of infotainment programs to censorship after receiving complaints from various quarters that the programs often violated the journalistic code of ethics.

KPI was scheduled to meet with the National Press Council soon to discuss the matter.

KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court Monday sentenced a market trader to death for murdering his Indonesian maid, one of a series of abuse cases that prompted Jakarta to ban domestic helpers working in Malaysia.

A. Murugan, 36, was charged with the murder of Indonesian Muntik Bani, who died in hospital on October 25 last year.

Her death was among a string of shocking cases of mistreatment of domestic workers that has strained ties between Malaysia and Indonesia, leading Jakarta last June to ban maids from working there.

Last week Malaysia said a deal with Indonesia on the working conditions of maids had stalled and the ban remains in force.

During the trial high court

Judge Mohamad Yazid Mustafa said Murugan had failed to raise a reasonable doubt against the charge, state news agency Bernama reported.

Witnesses told the court they had seen Muntik’s employer beating her with a broomstick and that Murugan’s wife had lodged three police reports against him for domestic abuse, it reported.

Malaysia is one of Asia’s largest importers of labour and depends heavily on domestic workers, who come mainly from Indonesia, but it has no laws governing their working conditions.

Averages of 50 maid abuse cases are reported annually out of the 300,000 Indonesian maids working in the country, according to Malaysian officials. But Indonesia says 1,000 maids face violence and mistreatment every year.

Six tiger skulls seized in Sumatra Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested two men on Sumatra island with six tiger skulls and other parts from the critically endangered species, an official said Monday.

The two were held Saturday in Pekanbaru city of Riau province as they picked up a package containing the skulls, five pieces of skin and bones, the provincial conservation agency head Trisunu Danis Woro said.

“It seems that the tigers have been killed a few days ago,” he told AFP adding that the package was delivered from Aceh province on the northern tip of the island.

“The men are not the main ac-

tor. Someone has ordered them to pick up the package,” he said.

There was no mention on the package of the sender’s identity and police were still hunting the culprits behind the poaching network, he said.

Conservationists estimate there are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild because of habitat loss and poaching.

In June Indonesian police arrested a man who allegedly poisoned and skinned an endangered Sumatran tiger in a state-owned zoo.

Representatives from 13 “tigerrange countries” met last week in Bali and drew up a declaration in a bid to save the big cats from extinction.

BI issues new coins and bank notes Antara

BANDUNG - Bank Indonesia this afternoon will be issuing new coins of the Rp 1,000 denomination, and bank notes of the Rp 10,000 denomination, of the latest design.

Head of the Strategic Planning Directorate and spokesman of BI Dyah Makhijani said the issuance of the new money will be conducted by Vice President Boediono at the BI office building in Bandung.

Dyah said the coins have a picture of Garuda Pancasila on the front, and the angklung traditional musical instrument on the back against the background of the Gedung Sate building in Bandung.

The money will be silvery, made of steel and coated with nickel.

“The old Rp10.000 bank notes shall remain a valid legal tender prior to their withdrawal by BI,” he said.

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Bali Today President supports Bali’s commitment to becoming green province Antara

DENPASAR - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono fully supports Bali’s initiative to become the first “green” province in Indonesia, the resort island’s governor said, “We have also received expressions of support from various parties, including the director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Bangkok who will be visiting Bali in the near future,” Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said here on Tuesday.

The governor, who attended a workshop on Bali Green Province which involved various elements of Bali commu-

nity, said turning Bali into a green, healthy, beautiful and clean province would not be easy.

However, he was confident that with the high commitment of and consistent hard work by regional government officials at all levels, and the cooperation of local religious and community leaders, the dream to turn Bali into a green province would be achieved.

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Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika (left) said that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono fully supports Bali’s initiative to become the first “green” province in Indonesia.

Balinese handicrafts have special market Mountaineering Antara

Denpasar – Bali’s handicrafts are highly demanded by the customers abroad. The handicrafts are very unique so the order received by the craftsmen is still very high even tough the economics crisis happens throughout the world.

Putu Bagiada, the head of Export division in Bali Industrial and Trade Department said that during January through May 2010

period, Bali’s handicrafts export increased 24% compared to similar period last year.

In the first five months of 2010, the exports were $98 million while last year was only $79 million.

The increased is quite surprising because the product from Bali must compete with other countries such as Vietnam, India, China and Thailand. Bagiada said that those countries can create many products at once

or mass production so they can fulfill the demand better.

While the Balinese craftsmen still use human power and emphasize on the skill of the maker.

The conditions make it difficult to accommodate the high demand from the customers.

“Bali handicrafts are made artistically by the Balinese and it has special market abroad,” Bagiada said. The handicrafts were exported to 17 countries throughout the world.

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In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy. To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason many temples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

Certain curtiousies should be followed by all mountain walkers which to the outsider may appear odd or strange. For example woman should not visit mountain regions during their menstrual cycle, beef, in the form of meat should not be eaten or carried there. Also whilst in the mountain, bad language or behavior must be avoided.

The mountains of Bali form part of a chain stretching from East to West and two of these mountains are in fact active volcanos. One being Mount Agung (2152 m) the highest mountain in Bali which last erupted in 1963, the other Mount Batur (1717 m) currently active. There are three other lesser mountains mount Abang (2152 m), Mount Batuaru (2276 m) and Mount lempuyang (1058 m), and several other mountains, but many f these can be “climbed” by motor cycles or cars.

Mountain climbing in Bali is something much closer to mountain walking since most of Blai’s mountains have gentle slopes with few difficult or steep climbs, so the equipment required is minimal. Recommended climbing gear being a hat, for sun/rain protection, stout boots, gloves (they are many thorn bushes and plants), warm clothing, rain coat and rucksack. It is also advisable to take along a small first aid kit. Many of the mountain foot hills have quite a number of leeches in particular Mount Batukaru so it is recommended to take along cigarettes (to burn the leeches off) and to tuck your trousers into your socks.

There is in Bali an active students mountaineering clubs in Bali. Every Universities in Bali has their own club, one of them “Mapala Wanaprastha Dharma” situated in the campus of the Udayana University on Jalan P.B Sudirman Denpasar. The following time-table gives a rough guide to some of the “climbs”, starting with the easy climbs and progressing to more difficult ones.

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A total of 300 turtle hatchlings released on Kuta Beach Bali Post

DENPASAR — A number of 300 black turtle (Lepidochelys olivaceae) hatchlings and two green turtles (Chelonia mydas) were released on Kuta Beach, last Monday (Jul 19), as the continuation of seminar taking the theme of “The Role of Banks in Sustainability of Our Future Earth.” The release was initiated by Minister of Environment Prof. Dr. Mohammad Gusti Hatta and Assistant of Regional Secretary of Bali Province, Ketut Wija, and then followed by hundreds of participants.

Aside from the release of turtle hatchlings, the event was also followed by planting 20 sea almond (Terminalia catappa) trees symbolically and distribution of 1,000 trees to visitors and surrounding community, which also posed a form of shared responsibility for ensuring the future sustainability of the earth.

“By the existence of this symbolical event, we expect the Bali Province which had proclaimed itself as a Green Province could be supported by all the people of Bali, including all banks located in the Bali Province,” explained the Chairman of Organizing Committee, Wayan Suja, in his speech.

Similarly, he explained that the activities were held to launch the commitment and efforts for environmental protection and management by the bank financial institutions.

Especially, the banks serving as the executors of the Industrial Effi-

ciency and Pollution Control soft loan program (IEPC - KfW1) and the banks operated in the Bali Province were expected to be a member of inspiration by initiating a commitment and effort for the environmental protection and management by the banking institution.

The release of turtle hatchlings drew enormous attention of the public who happened to be around the location. Foreign tourists did not miss such a great opportunity to join the turtle hatchling release by using plastic bowls. They

also hoped the event was not merely symbolic, but a thorough activity in the effort to preserve the environment.

Minister of Environment Muhhamad Hatta declared that environmental conservation was no more a bizarre thing to Balinese people.

Bali having the Tri Hita Karana philosophy indeed had been taught in day-to-day life to recognize and preserve the environment all at once.

“Seeing this fact, Minister of Environment should be from Bali,” he joked. (015)

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A number of 300 black turtle (Lepidochelys olivaceae) hatchlings and two green turtles (Chelonia mydas) were released on Kuta Beach. The release was initiated by Minister of Environment Prof. Dr. Mohammad Gusti Hatta (middle) and Assistant of Regional Secretary of Bali Province, Ketut Wija, and then followed by hundreds of participants.

Jaja Bulung: Feel the gentleness of seaweed In fact, seaweed can be said as a versatile ingredient.

Shortly, it can be used to make delicious vegetable.

Meanwhile, after drying under the sunlight and cleansed by water repeatedly, it can last longer and becomes a good ingredient to make seaweed cake. Of course, this gel-like cake is edible by children and adult. To Balinese, this cake is ordinarily applied to fill in oblation in wedding ceremony or offering at home shrines.

Ingredients: 200 gram dried seaweed, 1,500 liter water, 200gram palm sugar and 1 tsp salt.

Method: ·Finely cleanse the seaweed and boil it until shattered.

Keep on stirring until the water leaves only a half. ·Take out, strain its water and separate the seaweed waste. ·Dissolve palm sugar with a little water. Put the seaweed that has been strained into the sugar water while added with salt, too. Stir up them for a while in order they can mix well. ·Prepare some molds (to taste). Pour the hot batter into the mold and let them be cool. Serve when it has been cool. (BTN/punia)

Base Jukut (Spice Paste for Vegetables) INGREDIENTS: 175 gr shallots, peeled and chopped 150 gr cloves garlic, peeled & chopped 450 gr laos, peeled and thinly sliced 4 tsp coriander seeds 175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced 250 gr large red chilies, seeded & chopped 40 gr bird’s-eye chilies 100 gr kencur roots, peeled and chopped 5 tsp dried shrimp paste 150 ml Coconut oil 1 tsp salt 1¼ tsp black pepper ground 4 ea salam leaf, whole 3 ea stalk lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: 1. Combine all ingredients except salam leafs and Lemon grass, salt and water in food processor and grind coarsely.

2. Place ground ingredients in heavy saucepan, add remaining ingredients and simmer over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until water is evaporated and marinade changes to golden color. (www.baliguide.com/balifood) C.045 ibp

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It is one of the biggest Hindu temples in Bali situated in the coastal side west part of Singaraja town or 1 hour drive to the west from the town. This temple is set on the flat land with stone hill bank as a back drop meanwhile the blue ocean is just in front of the temple.

Pulaki Temple is a famous temple among the Hindu people in Bali located in Singaraja regency, north part of Bali. There are the group of monkeys dwell the hill forest around the temple and it usually standing around the temple in the day time. The beautiful beach with black sand and calm seawater is one of the fascinations to visitor to come to this temple. We can find the beautiful hill bank and beaches along the coastal road.

It is located in Pulaki Village, Seririt Sub District, Singaraja Regency, north part of Bali. It is just 3 hours drive from Bali’s International Airport or 1 hour drive from Singaraja town. It is strategically set in the main road from Singaraja to Gilimanuk with the group of monkeys as the identity for the traveler who wants to visit this temple.

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ADB calls for end to stimulus measures as economies rebound Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday upgraded its 2010 growth forecast for 14 East Asian economies and urged governments to unwind stimulus measures launched during the global recession.

The Manila-based lender upgraded its average growth forecast for Southeast Asia, Greater China and South Korea to 8.1 percent, up from April’s projection of 7.7 percent, following a spate of stellar growth data from the economies.

“While most emerging East Asian economies are assured of a sharp Vshaped recovery this year, it is to early to say that the ‘V’ stands for victory,” said Srinivasa Madhur, an ADB senior director who presented the findings.

He said the recovery’s sustainability will depend on “the correct timing, policy mix and pace at which economic stimulus is withdrawn.”

“The private sector must be strong enough to take over,” he added.

Regional powerhouse China is expected to post 9.6 percent growth this year and 9.1 percent in 2011, when measures to prevent overheating kick in.

The 14 economies surveyed also included Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Citing Singapore, which has upped its 2010 gross domestic product growth forecast to 13-15 percent, Madhur said

figures for the other economies have had to be adjusted upwards as well due to the strength of the regional rebound.

A pick-up in world trade and speedy responses from emerging East Asian governments to tackle the global recession ensured that their economies were able to recover swiftly and weather shocks, Madhur said.

“Despite uncertainties emanating from the European debt crisis, the emerging East Asia’s sharp V-shaped recovery from last year is very much on track and we see fairly broad-based strong growth across the region.”

ADB’s 2011 forecast remained unchanged at 7.2 percent as the bank expects growth to taper as advanced economies like the US slowed down as they pull back their stimulus measures.

Madhur said given the region’s economic strength, countries should follow the US lead in withdrawing stimulus measures meant to prop their economies up during the recession, but must time it properly.

“We need to sustain the recovery and at the same time exit from the unprecedented policy stimulus in the region,” he said.

Japan government vows budget austerity Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s government on Tuesday pledged austerity and a cap on new bond issues as it drafts a budget for next fiscal year while seeking to reduce a mountain of public debt.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, since taking office early last month, has pledged an ambitious overhaul to reduce Japan’s massive public debt, which is nearing 200 percent of GDP, the highest level in the industrialised world.

Tokyo said last month it aims to cap general account outlays at 71 trillion yen (818 billion dollars) for each of the next three years, including tax grants to local government but excluding debt-servicing costs.

The sum is roughly the same as the planned expenditure for the current year.

“It is the grand rule that we need to draft the budget within the basic framework

on expenditure that has been decided,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku told a news conference.

Sengoku, the top government spokesman, also confirmed the centre-left government aimed to keep new bond issuance at or below the current record level of 44.3 trillion yen.

The government is working to decide this month on basic rules for drafting the budget for the fiscal year 2011 starting next April. Cabinet ministers are required to submit their requests by the end of August.

The total national budget has expanded to a record 92.3 trillion yen for the current fiscal year, adding to the country’s bulging public debt burden as Tokyo also tries to stimulate a sluggish economy.

“Nobody thinks the country can carry on like this, and it is important to have a certain level of fiscal discipline,” said SMBC Friend Securities market analyst Yasushi Noguchi.

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A vendor updates sales register inside her shop for women shoes and slippers in downtown in Kuala Lumpur on July 19, 2010. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday upgraded its 2010 growth forecast for 14 East Asian economies and urged governments to unwind stimulus measures launched during the global recession.

September general strike ‘irreversible” says Spanish union Agence France-Presse

MADRID - There is no going back on a general strike called for September 29 to protest against a labour market reform, the head of Spain’s largest trade union confederation said Monday.

“The process leading to the strike is irreversible,” Fernandez Toxo, the president of the Communist-led CCOO, told reporters in the southeastern city of Albacete.

The CCOO and Spain’s other major train union conferderation, the more moderate UGT, which together represent over two million workers, called the strike last month.

The call came after the government said it would press ahead with labour market reforms that would make it easier to hire and fire workers.

The International Monetary Fund and the government argue the reform would help

slash the unemployment rate which has soared to around 20 percent, the second highest in the EU after Latvia.

They also point out that it would reduce government spending on jobless benefits.

But unions object to seeing workers’ rights weakened. They are also unhappy with government plans to raise the retirement age to 67 from 65 and austerity measures that will cut civil servants wages by an average of 5.0 percent.

The general strike will be Spain’s first since 2002 and the first since the Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s socialist government took power six years ago. The socialists had until now maintained good relations with the unions.

The general strike date coincides with a European day of action, which will have as its focal point a protest at a meeting of European Union finance ministers scheduled the same day in Brussels.

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Lindsay Lohan due in court to report for jail term Associated Press Writer

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Lindsay Lohan is due back in court Tuesday morning to surrender for a 90-day jail sentence that is likely to be whittled down by overcrowding and other credits.

Her stay will be longer than the 84 minutes she spent at a suburban Los Angeles jail in 2006 and marks the beginning of a new phase of punishment for drug and alcohol cases filed that year.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced the “Mean Girls” star to jail, three months in rehab and increased scrutiny by probation officials on July 6 after determining the actress violated her probation by missing seven alcohol education classes since December.

Lohan, 24, burst into tears after hearing the sentence, which came after she tearfully apologized to the judge for not strictly following the terms of her probation.

On Friday celebrity attorney Rob-

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Harry Potter star lands gothic thriller role Agence France Presse

LONDON – Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is to star in gothic thriller “The Woman in Black”, cult British horror film maker Hammer said on Monday. Radcliffe will begin filming in October for his first major role since completing work on a two-part finale to the global blockbuster movie franchise about the adventures of the boy wizard.

“The Woman in Black”, the best-selling novel by Susan Hill which has already spawned a hit London theatre version, has been adapted for the big screen IBP/ist

by Jane Goldman, who penned Daniel Radcliffe this year’s cult hit “Kick-Ass”.

He will play Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer who travels to an isolated house in a remote part of Britain to deal with the documents of a client who has recently died. The house soon reveals its tragic secrets and the lawyer learns that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

The film will be directed by “Eden Lake” director James Watkins.

Radcliffe, 20, who has played the boy wizard in all the Harry Potter feature films based on the JK Rowling books, said he was “incredibly excited” by his new role.

“Jane Goldman’s script is beautifully written — both tender and terrifying in equal measure,” he said. “It is thrilling to be working with James Watkins.

“From his brilliant work on Eden Lake and also having met him and heard his vision for the film, I know he will make a fantastic film.”

ert Shapiro signed on to the case after Lohan moved into a sober living facility that he founded. By Monday night, the Los Angeles Times and celebrity website TMZ.com, citing anonymous sources, reported that Shapiro had resigned from the case.

Shapiro met with Revel in a closed meeting late Monday afternoon. The prosecutor handling the case, Danette Meyers, was not present and court officials said there had been no change in requirements for Lohan’s surrender.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press sent Monday evening after the meeting, Shapiro said his only comments would be made in open court.

Lohan, a prolific user of the microblogging site Twitter, posted a message roughly 12 hours before her

FILE - In this July 6, 2010 file photo, actress Lindsay Lohan appears in a courtroom for a probation revocation hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lohan is scheduled to turn herself in Tuesday, July 20, to begin serving a 90 day jail sentence for violating the terms of her probation for a 2007 drug case.

court appearance referencing her looming incarceration.

“The only ‘bookings’ that I’m familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that I’d be ‘booking’ into jail eeeks,” Lohan posted. The jail and rehab stints have left some of the actress’ projects in limbo, including her planned portrayal of porn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic.

Once considered an up-and-coming star, Lohan has in recent years been better-known as a tabloid staple and for the criminal case she has struggled to put behind her.

Her probation had to be extended for a year to give Lohan more time to complete her alcohol education courses and Revel ordered weekly attendance in December.

But the actress didn’t complete the sessions as ordered and missed a court date in May, setting a stage for her return to jail. She is expected to serve her time — probably a quarter of her sentence or less — in isolation at a women’s jail in the industrial suburb of Lynwood.

The facility has hosted several female celebrities, including Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Michelle Rodriguez, Khloe Kardashian and very briefly, Lohan.

Bullock renews restraining order against stalker in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Declarations from a doctor who interviewed Weldon LOS ANGELES – Sandra Bullock obtained a tem- in Wyoming said that Weldon believes he has commuporary restraining order Monday against a 41-year-old nicated with Bullock telepathically. He told doctors that he has not been taking his mediman accused of stalking the cations. “His preoccupation Oscar-winning actress since with Ms. Bullock is obvious,” 2003.

Dr. Jiri Danczik, a psychiatrist, Bullock’s attorney obtained wrote in a sworn declaration. the protective order on her beIt is unclear when Weldon half against Thomas James was released from the mental inWeldon, who has been the substitution in Tennessee. Bullock’s ject of previous court orders to attorney, Ed McPherson, filed a stay away from the 45-yeardeclaration stating that Weldon old actress. A hearing for a has sent the actress numerous ethree-year order against mails and faxes in recent years.

Weldon was scheduled for The actress’ previous court Aug. 6. filings have accused Weldon of Bullock first obtained a rerepeatedly trying to contact Bulstraining order in California lock and traveling around the against Weldon in 2003, but country in an attempt to meet that order expired in 2009. He her. Bullock has never met voluntarily entered a mental Weldon, the court filing said. institution in Tennessee, and The restraining order seeks to the actress sued the state in block Weldon from trying to 2006 to require them to notify contact Bullock at any of her her of his release. According homes and any of her movie to the court filing, Weldon sets. It also seeks to protect her turned up in a Wyoming emer7-month-old Louis Bardo Bulgency room last month comlock, whom the actress is in the plaining of anxiety and sleepprocess of adopting. Bullock relessness. He later told hospiAP Photo/Peter Kramer, file tal staff that he had driven FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Sandra cently finalized her divorce from Tennessee in an attempt Bullock arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party from biker businessman Jesse James. to meet Bullock at her home in West Hollywood, Calif.

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This is an undated handout photo issued Monday July 19, 2010 by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) of a Horton Plains slender loris, sitting on a forest branch in a mountain forest in central Sri Lanka.

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Rare Sri Lankan primate gets 1st wide-eyed closeup Associated Press Writer

GALLE, Sri Lanka – A nocturnal, forest-dwelling primate with orblike eyes and short limbs was photographed in central Sri Lanka late last year after being feared extinct, researchers said Monday.

A Horton Plains slender loris was caught on camera after lengthy surveys of the forest by researchers from the Zoological Society of London, the University of Colombo and the Open University of Sri Lanka.

Team leader Saman Gamage said the mammal was not sighted for more than 60 years until in 2002 a researcher reported spotting its eyes during a search - inspiring the effort to view it fully and photograph it to prove the primate existed.

“We are thrilled to have captured the first ever photographs and prove its continued existence,” said Craig Turner, a conservation biologist with the Zoological Society.

The primate’s population is thought to have begun dwindling in the mountain forest habitat after British colonial rulers from the 19th century cleared large tracts of forest for coffee and tea plantations, Gamage said.

Logging, agriculture and development made it hard for the lorises to find food, escape threats or meet mates. Turner, a conservation biologist at the Zoological Society of London, said only one or two sightings occurred between 1937 and 2002.

Despite repeated attempts to find it, there were no sightings between 2002 and 2009.

“People, including ourselves, had begun to think: ‘Yeah, maybe it has

disappeared’,” he said. Given its size and nocturnal habits, the eight-inch (20-centimer) beast was tough to find.

But the giveaway was in its eerily large, night-vision eyes. Scientists combed the forest canopy with redfiltered flashlights - eventually catching sight of the loris.

“You get a very distinct red eyeshine reflecting from the loris,” Turner told The Associated Press.

“That’s how we picked up on the initial presence of the species.”

Turner said scientists were then able to briefly capture the primate, taking measurements and genetic material before releasing it back into the wild. He said the critter’s orb-like peepers and gangly limbs made it an easy sell to the general population.”It’s a very appealing species,” he said.

Gamage said more of the lorises are thought to live in small patches of forest in Sri Lanka’s hill country.

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AIDS breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection Associated Press Writer

For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman’s chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won’t use condoms.

The results need to be confirmed in another study, and that level of protection is probably not enough to win approval of the microbicide gel in countries like the United States, researchers say. But they are optimistic it can be improved.

“We are giving hope to women,” who account for most new HIV infections, said Michel Sidibe in a statement. He is executive director of the World Health Organization’s UNAIDS program. A gel could “help us break the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic,” he said.

And Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health said, “It’s the first time we’ve ever seen any microbicide give a positive result” that scientists agree is true evidence of protection.

The gel, spiked with the AIDS drug tenofovir, cut the risk of HIV infection by 50 percent after one year of use and 39 percent after 2 1/2 years,

compared to a gel that contained no medicine.

To be licensed in the U.S., a gel or cream to prevent HIV infection may need to be at least 80 percent effective, Fauci said. That might be achieved by adding more tenofovir or getting women to use it more consistently. In the study, women used the gel only 60 percent of the time; those who used it more often had higher rates of protection.

The gel also cut in half the chances of getting HSV-2, the virus that causes genital herpes. That’s important because other sexually spread diseases raise the risk of catching HIV. Even partial protection is a huge victory that could be a boon not just in poor countries but for couples anywhere when one partner has HIV and the other does not, said Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, the South African researcher who led the study. In the U.S., nearly a third of new infections each year are among heterosexuals, he noted. Countries may come to different decisions about whether a gel that offers this amount of protection should be licensed. In South Africa, where one in three girls is infected with HIV by age 20, this gel could prevent 1.3 million infections and 826,000 deaths over the next two decades, he calculated.

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A researcher at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative laboratory works on samples at the lab in May in New York.

Australian laser system to track space junk Agence France Presse

SYDNEY – An Australian company Tuesday said it had developed a laser tracking system that will stop chunks of space debris colliding with spacecraft and satellites in the Earth’s orbit. Electric Optic Systems said lasers fired from the ground would locate and track debris as small as 10 centimetres (four inches) across, protecting astronauts and satellites.

“We can track them to very high precision so that we can predict whether there are going to be collisions with other objects or not,” Craig

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Smith, the company’s CEO, told AFP. Smith said the technology improved upon existing radar systems because it could detect tiny objects, left behind by disused rockets and satellites, which can still devastate hardware because they are travelling at ultra-high speeds. He said there were an estimated 200,000 objects measuring less than one centimetre floating in orbit, with another 500,000 of a centimetre or larger.

“It ranges from bus-size bits of rocket bodies all the way down to a little half-a-millimetre fleck of paint,” Smith said from the company’s headquarters in Canberra.

This NASA composite image obtained in June 2010 shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. An Australian company has developed a laser tracking system that will stop chunks of space debris colliding with spacecraft and satellites in the Earth’s orbit.

“The trouble is that they’re all travelling at about 30,000 kilometres (19,000 miles) an hour. So unless you’re in the same orbit you have hyper-velocity impacts, which can be devastating to a satellite.”

Electric Optic Systems said it had developed the technology thanks to a four million dollar (3.5 million US) grant from the Australian government. Smith said the company has received interest in the lasers, developed at Canberra’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, from around the world.

But he said the system would work best with a network of tracking stations placed at strategic points around the globe. “A network is better than a single station of your own because — particularly in lower earth orbit — things are not always coming over your head when you want them to be,” said Smith.

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Australia not concerned

by Chinese World Cup bid Agence France Presse

SYDNEY – Australian football officials remain confident in their bid for the 2022 World Cup despite reports that China wants to host the 2026 tournament. There is little likelihood of Asian countries hosting two World Cups in succession, which means any formal bid from China would put enormous pressure on 2022 bids by Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea.

Football Federation Australia said it was confident China’s interest in hosting the 2026 tournament would not impact on its chances.

“We can’t and don’t really want to comment directly about whatever anyone else may or may not be doing,” an FFA spokesman told The Australian newspaper on Tuesday. “However, we are very confident that we have a compelling case to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022.

“Our bid is complete. it has been submitted and is supported by full government guarantees and we will be promoting it up until the decision by FIFA on December 2.

“We know we have a lot of competition but we believe we are a safe pair of hands in Asia and have a fantastic record of holding

huge events including the best Olympics ever in Sydney in 2000,” he added. “Australia is the only continent yet to hold a World Cup and by providing us the honour of hosting one would be a huge benefit to all of Asia and Oceania.”

Wei Di, head of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), has said China has been inspired by the success of the tournament in South Africa.

“It really moved us to see all the social benefits South Africa got from hosting the World Cup,” Wei told the nation’s leading sports newspaper Titan Sports earlier this week. “The CFA is preparing to ask the General Administration of Sport to bid for the 2026 World Cup,” he was quoted as saying.

“Everyone has been debating whether China should bid for the World Cup or when to bid, but seeing how successfully South Africa hosted it, I have to say that China has no reason not to bid and now is the best time.”

China did not qualify for this year’s World Cup in South Africa.

Its only appearance in football’s global showcase came in 2002. The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is currently under way, and the winners will be announced by the sport’s governing body FIFA on December 2.

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Australia’s striker Tim Cahill waves his national flag at the end of the World Cup match against Serbia at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, South Africa.

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Cole capture shows Liverpool ‘mean business’ Agence France Presse

LIVERPOOL, England – The capture of England midfielder Joe Cole shows Liverpool mean business, defender Jamie Carragher warned the club’s Premier League rivals on Tuesday.

Former Chelsea midfielder Cole agreed terms on a four-year contract on Monday and has flown to Liverpool’s Switzerland training camp for a medical.

Carragher believes the signing of his England team-mate Cole proves fears that Liverpool, with no Champions League action to look forward to, would struggle to attract topquality signings, are unfounded.

“It’s great news and it is a message that Liverpool mean business,” said the 32-year-old Carragher. He added: “We have signed a top international player who has been really important for Chelsea.

“A lot of clubs wanted to sign him but it is a real coup that he has chosen to come here and you have got to give the manager and the board a pat on the back for convincing him to come here.

“Every supporter that I have spoken to is absolutely delighted and all the players are the same - it’s given everyone a boost, just at the right time.

“It has been a long summer and we have been in a transitional period but now the World Cup is out of the way, we can start to look forward again.

“The fact we have got him has given everyone a boost around the city. It’s good news again and, hopefully, there will be more to come.

It’s the kind of signing that we needed to make.”

Carragher returns to Melwood Tuesday with fellow England internationals Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnson to begin pre-season training after a three-week rest.

Liverpool disappointed last season, finishing seventh.

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England midfielder Joe Cole controls the ball during a friendly between Platinum Stars and England at the Moruleng Stadium near Rustenburg on June 7 ahead of the start of the 2010 World Cup.

Germany coach Loew ‘extends contract’ Agence France Presse

BERLIN – Germany’s national coach Joachim Loew and his three right-hand men have agreed two-year extensions to their contracts following the team’s World Cup success, press reports said Tuesday. Loew was due to sign a new deal with the German Football Federation (DFB) later on Tuesday ahead of a news conference around midday (1000 GMT), the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Bild dailies reported.

Team manager Oliver Bierhoff and assistant coaches Hans-Dieter Flick and Andreas Koepke were also due to sign two-year extensions to 2012, the papers said on their websites, without saying where they got the information.

Germany finished third in the World Cup in South Africa, demolishing England 4-1 and favourites Argentina 4-0 before losing 1-0 to eventual champions Spain in the semi-finals. They then beat Uruguay 3-2 in a third-place playoff.

Loew, 50, has won 38 out of 55 matches since he succeeded Jurgen

Klinsmann after the 2006 World Cup, taking Germany to the runners-up spot at Euro 2008.

His four-year deal expired on June 30, and talks over a new contract for him and his entire backroom staff broke down in Feb-

ruary over financial details and Loew’s desire for more control over the Under-21 side. Germany’s first qualifying match for Euro 2012, to be held in Poland and the Ukraine, will be against Belgium in Brussels on September 3.

Germany’s coach Joachim Loew addresses a press conference at the Velmore hotel in Erasmia near Pretoria, South Africa, on July 11. Loew and his three right-hand men have agreed two-year extensions to their contracts following the team’s World Cup success, press reports said Tuesday.

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Riders set off for Tour de France’s hardest day Associated Press Writer

BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, France – Alberto Contador is in the leader’s yellow jersey for the first time in this year’s Tour de France as the riders start the hardest day of the race.

The Spaniard is eight seconds ahead of former leader Andy Schleck at the beginning of Tuesday’s 16th stage, a grueling 124-mile ride from Bagneres-deLuchon to Pau that takes in four major climbs, including the notorious Col du Tourmalet. The 172 riders will take on the Tourmalet for a second time on Thursday. The race finishes in Paris on Sunday.

Contador

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador has apologized for the way he took over the lead in the Tour de France from rival Andy Schleck.

During Monday’s stage, Schleck’s chain came off and Contador kept riding, rather than waiting in accordance with race etiquette. In a video posted on YouTube, Contador said: “Maybe I made a mistake. I’m sorry. I don’t like things like what happened today, I’m not like that and I hope the relationship that I have with Andy can go back to being as good as it was before this happened.”

Contador initially insisted he hadn’t seen that Schleck had a problem.

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New Yellow jersey of Overall leader, Spain’s Alberto Contador (L), rides in Port de Bales climb with fourth placed in the overall standings, Russia’s Denis Menchov (C) and third placed in the overalls, Spain’s Samuel Sanchez, during the 187 km and 15th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race run between Pamiers and Bagneres-de-Luchon on July 19, 2010.

Mavs re-sign Hewitt gets comfortable as US Open run-up begins Dirk owitzki Associated Press Writer

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Lleyton Hewitt (pictured) is back in his comfort zone at the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, with six weeks of hard court tennis to go before the US Open, which begins on August 30. The 29-year-old Australian is seeded behind Americans Andy Roddick and John Isner.

ATLANTA, Georgia – Lleyton Hewitt is back in his comfort zone this week as third seed at the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, with six weeks of hard court tennis to go before the US Open. “I’m quite comfortable on the hard courts,” said the former number one. “I don’t think it’s too early to start. I’ll take next week and one more off before the Open (which begins August 30).

The 29-year-old Australian is seeded behind Americans Andy Roddick and John Isner. None was in action on Monday as the top four seeds received byes into the second round.

In first-round results, American Michael Russell upset German eighth seed Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-3 to earn a meeting with another German - veteran Rainer Schuettler who beat Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-1, 6-4.

Rajeev Ram booked a secondround clash with Roddick with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) victory over Slovak Karol Beck, and Ukranian Illya Marchenko beat qualifier Kristof Vliegen by the same 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) scoreline. American Mardy Fish also advanced, beat his second British opponent in three weeks, hammering James Ward 6-1,

6-2 after beating Richard Bloomfield in a title run on the grass courts of Newport.

Atlanta returned to the ATP calendar this season after a nine-year absence in the wake of a financial deal with the bankrupt Indianapolis event. Hewitt’s previous visit to the southern American city came in 1999 when the event here was played on green clay.

The Australian, now based with his family just a flight away in the Bahamas, is keen to put the confidence he gained from a title victory on grass last month in Halle, Germany - where he beat Roger Federer - to work during the gruelling cement season.

“Winning Halle gave me a lot of confidence, especially after beating Roger on grass in a final,” said the Aussie. “The top players like him all tend to play their best at the business end of a tournament.” Number 30 Hewitt’s last match was the Wimbledon fourth round, where he lost to Novak Djokovic. Hewitt wrote on his website he had enjoyed spending time at home with his wife, Bec, who is pregnant, and family.

DALLAS – Nine-time All-Star Dirk Nowitzki has signed his new contract with the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks announced the signing in a statement issued Monday.

Team officials released no terms of the deal. However, a person familiar with the negotiations had told The Associated Press when the agreement was reached earlier this month that the deal is for more than $80 million over four years, with a no-trade clause.

At 32, Nowitzki had opted out of the final year of his contract to become an unrestricted free agent for the first time, but he didn’t talk seriously with any other teams.

The 12-year NBA veteran has averaged 22.9 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists, one block and 36.7 minutes in 920 career games. In 97 playoff games, Nowitzki averages 25.5 points, 11 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.2 steals and 1 block per game.

The Wurzburg, Germany, native is the Mavericks’ career scoring leader with 21,111 points and tops the Mavs in career rebounding with 7,802. The 2007 NBA MVP became the 34th player in league history to reach 20,000 career points on Jan. 13 and ranks 27th among all-time scorers.

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Valentino Rossi has ruled out any chance of victory at Laguna Seca this weekend, and insists he still does not expect to be back to his best until Misano in September.

The world champion returned to MotoGP in Germany last weekend, six weeks after suffering a broken leg in a Mugello practice crash. He was extremely competitive at the Sachsenring and only just missed out on a podium finish when Casey Stoner got past him at the final corner.

Although he set the second-fastest race lap and was just five seconds behind winner Dani Pedrosa at the finish in Germany, Rossi said he still feels rusty after his absence and needs more races to get up to speed.

“I think the mental side is more than the physical condition,” he said. “When I feel very good and

am working well, I feel my leg is stronger and my physical condition improves. The target remains to arrive at 100 per cent by Misano, and we’ll try to do it before if possible.

“At Laguna I’ll try to do better [than in Germany], but I think I’m still not ready to try to win.” He admitted that in some ways racing was currently easier mentally as his title chances were now extremely remote.

“From the mental side in one way it’s easy, because you have less pressure - you don’t have to win, like it has been in the whole of my career, more or less,” Rossi said.

The Yamaha rider added that it was now just a case of getting reacclimatised to racing situations as

he had few physical problems. He was particularly pleased with the progress of the shoulder he injured in a Motocross accident several weeks before the Mugello incident.

“The shoulder is what I am most happy about,” said Rossi. “I crashed on 15 April, and I had a lot of problems and a lot of pain at Jerez and Le Mans. “When I stayed in bed for 15 days [with the broken leg], my shoulder became a lot worse because it became more tight and I lost a lot of movement. So I was very frustrated then and worried that I’d have to have another operation. “But I worked a lot in the swimming pool, my situation improved a lot and [in the race] no pain.”

Kubica fearing tough German GP Robert Kubica fears his Renault team could face a difficult German Grand Prix due to the improving form of rival teams. With the French squad not having its own F-duct system, and with most of its rivals already using a blown rear diffuser, Kubica fears the opposition could be very strong at Hockenheim.

“As usual, I will try to do my best and to extract the maximum from the car,” said Kubica in a team preview. “Most of the teams we are racing now have both the F-duct and the blown floor, so I think it could be quite a tough

weekend, and we need to make sure that our pace is more competitive than at the last race.

“But if it’s what we call a tough weekend for us is like in Silverstone, when we still could have finished P4 or P5, then I’ll take it straight away.”

The Pole, who retired from the previous race at Silverstone, said Renault will have to work hard to make sure it finds the right compromise between speed and downforce due to the lack of an F-duct.

“All the cars we are racing already have an F-duct system, and this makes our life harder because we may have to reduce downforce

to be competitive on top speed, which could cost us in the corners,” he added. “We will have to evaluate the best compromise for us on Friday.”

Team-mate Vitaly Petrov is aiming to match Kubica’s pace during the weekend, the Russian admitting his main focus will be having a strong qualifying. “As always the first target is to be close to Robert’s pace,” he said. “Then I need to qualify in the top ten and finish the race. “I think that qualifying is my number one priority for the weekend because we know how it important it is for the outcome of the race.”

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Renault f1’s Polish driver Robert Kubica drives ahead of Mercedes GP’s German driver Nico Rosberg and Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso at the Silverstone circuit on July 11, 2010, during the Formula One British Grand Prix.

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Italy’s Valentino Rossi of the Yamaha team waits during the training of the second free practice session of the MotoGP race at the Sachsenring Circuit on July 17, 2010 in HohensteinErnstthal, eastern Germany. The 31-year-old Italian has been given the green light to make a return to MotoGP on July 18, just 42 days after suffering a double fracture of his right leg.